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Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking by Teri Klassen (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press
ISBN-101621902706
ISBN-139781621902706
eBay Product ID (ePID)224111603
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages174 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTennessee Delta Quiltmaking
SubjectQuilts & Quilting, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Folk & Outsider Art, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year2017
TypeStudy Guide
AuthorTeri Klassen
Subject AreaArt, Social Science, History, Crafts & Hobbies
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
LCCN2016-031849
Reviews" Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking is an excellent study of quilting in rural West Tennessee. Both black and white quilters inhabit the small-farm region, and their quilting traditions are largely shared across racial lines. A study that highlights shared culture, rather than seeking to distinguish racial or ethnic contributions, is a welcome direction in cultural research."--Alan Jabbour, former director of the American Folklore Society, Library of Congress , " Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking is an excellent study of quilting in rural West Tennessee. Both black and white quilters inhabit the small-farm region, and their quilting traditions are largely shared across racial lines. A study that highlights shared culture, rather than seeking to distinguish racial or ethnic contributions, is a welcome direction in cultural research."--Alan Jabbour, former director of the American Folklore Society, Library of Congress
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal746.4609768
Synopsis" Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking is an excellent study of quilting in rural West Tennessee. Both black and white quilters inhabit the small-farm region, and their quilting traditions are largely shared across racial lines. A study that highlights shared culture, rather than seeking to distinguish racial or ethnic contributions, is a welcome direction in cultural research."--Alan Jabbour, former director of the American Folklore Society, Library of Congress Prior to the 1960s, quiltmaking thrived in the Tennessee Delta as a crucial source of warm bedcovers among cash-poor, yet self-sufficient farm households. As agriculture mechanized, rural workers switched to factory jobs and could afford nicer houses and blankets. Quiltmaking survived because women--both black and white--reinvented it as a hobby that met personal and social needs. Though scholars have studied quilt styles with rural southern roots, few have considered black and white quiltmakers together or as part of a shared regional culture. In Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking, Teri Klassen traces how mid-twentieth-century common quilts developed from nineteenth-century styles. Through interviews with people from rural households, Klassen uncovers the ways in which designs and labor were shared and the ways in which quiltmaking was part of the small-farm culture that was common to blacks and whites. While quiltmaking was a creative form passed down in families, limited means and accessible materials made it both a necessity and a highly evolved custom in southwestern Tennessee's upper Delta region. For families in this region, the quilt symbolized homemaker competence and self-reliance, a trait especially valued by sharecroppers and tenant-farmers who owned no land. The culture of quiltmaking reflected living conditions and values of these folk, and Klassen details numerous changes in this culture, from how it contributed to small-farm stability to how industrialization affected the practice. By considering quiltmaking's practical, aesthetic, and social aspects in a historical, mixed-race context, Tennessee Delta Quiltmaking makes a unique contribution to the study of the Tennessee Delta and the understanding of common-quilt design. TERI KLASSEN is a postdoctoral research associate at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana University. Her articles have appeared in Journal of American Folklore, Midwestern Folklore, and Journalism Quarterly.
LC Classification NumberNK9112.K58 2017
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